Game Reviews – Page 70 – Obsolete Gamer

Other problems include a constantly repeating and quite annoying musical theme, the inability to skip dialog (and there are tons of it), horrible 3d character models and a few glitches/bugs. On the other hand And Then There Were None is quite enjoyable and atmospheric (for the duration of the 10 to 15 hours you’ll spend beating it). Environmental graphics are okay and with some decent weather effects, the original material is excellent, the voice-overs almost perfect and if you buy the game in the U.S. you will also get the original book as a gift (or so I hear). The manual is also a nice addition, with its decent oldskool booky feel, and you might also appreciate the multiple endings, which also include the original.

Table Top Games

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Zombies!!!

Zombies!!! is a game about survival, about destroying zombies and about making sure your opponents (1 to 5 opponents; do the math, that means 2-6 players) are serving as undead snacks. You (the model representing you actually) will be running around a zombie infested town (made of 30 beautifully illustrated cards and infested by 100 -yes 100- miniature zombies ), shooting zombies (a 4+ on a d6 destroys them), collecting health and ammo, searching buildings and playing the exquisitely dark and humorous

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Aya Ueto: Japanese Music

Aya Ueto (pictured) plays the best of the assassins and looks right at home kicking everyones’s arse (or rather, slicing them up with her sword!), something which belies her petite and dainty nature. After discovering her in this film and its sequel, I discovered that she is also a J-Pop singer. Since then I have been trying to find some of her music, but to no avail. After searching BeeMP3 for one of her songs, the only thing I could find is the song titled ‘Aya’, below.

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Die Antwoord – Rich Bitch

This is another international group called, Die Antwoord, a futuristic rap and rave crew from South Africa. The group has a unique sound and style they call Zef. The group made up of Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Dj Hi-tek, made it big in 2009 with their video called Enter The Ninja.

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Conan The Barbarian Trailer

Check out the trailer for Conan The Barbarian that will follow Conan’s adventures across Hyboria. Conan is on a quest to avenge the man who slaughtered his village and murdered his father.

Arcade Games

Simon Lethbridge

Bomb Jack

One of the best features of Bomb Jack is its scoring system. As soon as you grab your first bomb on any given stage, another bomb will start fizzing. A fizzing bomb is called a Fire Bomb and collecting one will then cause another to start fizzing, and so on. Collecting a fire bomb gives you double the points of a normal bomb and if you collect more than twenty of them in one round you’ll receive a large bonus at the end of it, increasing to fifty thousand points if you manage to collect all 23 of them.

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Tales of a Driver: The Pompous Bitch

I was to busy for this shit, I told her we are very busy and if you want I will give you double veggies on your burger but that’s it. She then asked for the manager, great call because the manager and I were friends and love to play jokes.

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Three Geek Related Shows on the bubble

If these three shows go down I will consider it a loss for tv geekdom. Even if you are not a fan of any of these shows they still offer something a bit different and if they continue to fall, the thought won’t be to improve on these types of shows, but stop creating them outright.

Modern PC Gaming

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Star Wars Battlefront II

SWBFII is such an improvement over its predecessor it totally surprised me and reminded me how fond of Star Wars games (TIE Fighter is what I am actually referring to) I once used to be. There are lots of excellent maps, vastly improved game mechanics, four different factions, many weapons and classes to choose from, playable characters (Darth Vader and co.) that can be used in multiplayer battles, a decent single player campaign, driveable vehicles and even a small but interesting strategic mode called Galactic Conquest (unfortunately only for the single player mode). By far though, the most interesting new feature is the inclusion of space battles. X-Wings, B-Wings, Y-Wings, TIE Fighters and the rest are all there in a highly enjoyable space flight sim in the style of X-Wing versus TIE Fighter.

Game Reviews

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

The 8-bit Book 1981 to 199X

As is the case with the rest of the books of the series, each page of The 8-bit Book covers one game and presents it complete with all the relevant info you might care for, a description of the game and an eclectic selection of pictures covering everything from screenshots, to game boxes, to cartridges and loading screens. As for the accompanying text itself, it’s very well written and higly informative, not only describing the game itself, but also (among other things) providing behind the scenes information, mentionig reviews of the era, sequels and even remakes.

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Licky Licky Music Video

In our music video series, we hope to showcase videos that can slowly melt your brain away either in a good way or a bad way, as long as there is some brain melting going on. This video is called Licky Licky by the group Crispy. Strangely enough, I really thought it should be called Exotic Fruit, but what do I know.

Game Reviews

J.A. Laraque

Comic Book Collection: Part 1

I spend a lot of money during my teenage years. This was when a bunch of new comic books and comic book companies came out and I loved collecting number one issues and special editions. I also always got a plastic bag and a cardboard insert for them.

Table Top Games

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Space Hulk 2nd Edition

Silliness aside, the Warhammer 40000 universe, Space Hulk’s setting, is a very rich in detail and well-portrayed world. An unholy bastard of a fantasy and sci-fi setting it may be, but also one of the better gaming worlds around. Space Hulk 2nd edition (Space Hulk henceforth) is accordingly one of the better board games around. Perhaps the best I’’ve ever played, and one I can’’t recommend enough.

3DO

Simon Lethbridge

Captain Quazar

The game is viewed from one of my favourite perspectives – 3D isometric. There are ten large levels which are divided over the three planets, and each has a different objective. On level one, for instance, you must destroy a set number of rockets containing an addictive spice, though you’ll only get a short time to do this as they start to launch as soon as they appear on the screen.

SNES

Luis Zena

F-Zero

One of the most amazingly classic racing games for the SNES is surely F-Zero. It was a very unique game for its time and deserves a spot at the Retro Game of the Week. The game is huge with lots of crazy tracks and your rivals as well. You have different difficulties to pick from as well as different tournaments to pick. The game is pretty simple except it’s set in the future and the race tracks have uniqueness all over.

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J.A. Laraque

FWIP FWIP

Everyone has encountered this. Everyone. AS SUCH, when you are watching youtube, hulu, or whatever, one video will be really quiet. so you have to turn up the volume. However, the next video will be SRGEYTE$WYHERNRT%EYB#V #GHER% N^BWV$WTW YHG#$ $%E&BYVY$%WYV%RHREHYB$WGY%$VHE$TBGE%YBVR%HB$EYD% RY$WEYGRDG$%WEYH$W%H.

Modern PC Gaming

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Civilization IV

Beside the three (3) aforementioned weirdos, the rest of the world should be happy to know that moving on to Civ 4 is definitely worth it. This seems to be the best Civ ever, even though no one can be absolutely sure unless two or three more years pass. Civ 4 sports a brand new 3d engine that can run decently on almost any modern PC or Notebook. It also features a new simpler but more tactical combat system, a never seen before government system, new religions that actually play a role (monasteries, prophets and missionaries are included), a faster game engine, decent (playable) multiplayer, new Wonders, Great People (something like wonders… but… ahem… in the guise of people)